What happened in Malaysian Parliament today may well earn the so-called august house vital points from the Guinness Book of Records, or at the very least, the Malaysian Book of Records.
Why, four Parliamentarians from the Pakatan Rakyat were suspended for six months within a day!
According to The Malaysian Insider, Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was suspended for claiming earlier this year that PM Najib Razak’s public relations consultants APCO Worldwide had been behind both the slogans 1Malaysia and One Israel.
Subsequently, three more PR lawmakers — Subang MP R. Sivarasa, Gombak MP Azmin Ali and Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh — were booted out for contempt for revealing and discussing the proceedings of the Rights and Privileges Committee on Anwar’s APCO claims.
No PR lawmakers were present in Parliament during the debate to suspend the three MPs because all opposition MPs had left soon after the motion to suspend Anwar was passed without any debate.
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